Eggless Dates Cake Recipe | Soft & Moist Cake | with step by step pics & video. Dates cake made from luscious dates is probably one of the moist cakes I had ever eaten.
With soft moist texture and dense dates flavour, the warm cake will get wiped off in a jiffy. You can even add nuts or chocolate chips of your choice for extra crunchiness.
How to make Eggless Dates Cake Recipe?
Eggless Dates Cake Recipe | Soft & Moist Cake recipe | with step by step pics & video. This cake recipe will be a delight to bake. Rich in dates & dates flavour, makes it a rich cake too. This recipes calls for boiling & blending the dates before mixing in. And small chunks of cut dates gives that crunchy flavour that will leave you asking for more.
These are specially made during the Christmas celebrations particularly in Britain and other parts of Europe. In addition, it is also made and served during the thanksgiving celebrations in America. Moreover, it is generally made with mild sweetness and hence can be consumed as an evening snack with a cup of tea or perhaps even for morning breakfast.
Selection of Dates: You can use either seeded or seedless dates. Remove the seeds before boiling the dates.
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Dates Cake Recipe
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minutesEggless Dates Cake Recipe | Soft & Moist Cake | with step by step pics & video. Dates cake made from luscious dates is probably one of the moist cakes I had ever eaten.
Ingredients
1 cup Seedless Dates
3/4 cup Water
1 tbsp Butter
1/2 cup Cooking Oil
3/4 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Milk
1 tbsp Vinegar
11/2 cup Maida
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/8 tsp Salt
1/4 cup Hot Water
Directions
- Boiling the dates
- Heat a saucepan, add 1 cup of seedless dates and 3/4 cup of water.
- Once it starts to boil, add in 1 tsp butter & mix well.
- Cook until the dates turns soft.
- Once the water is dried off, switch off the flame and allow it to cool completely.
- Switch off the flame & allow it to cool.
- Once the dates are cooled transfer it to a blender. Blend to a coarse paste and keep aside. (Do not add water, while grinding the dates)
- Making Cake Batter
- Add 1 tbsp of white vinegar to 1/2 cup of milk.
- Mix it well and keep it aside.
- In another bowl, add 1/2 cup cooking oil and 3/4 cup of sugar.
- Mix and add the curdled milk kept aside.
- Mix until sugar is dissolved.
- Then, add the ground dates paste.
- Combine them well.
- Sieve in 11/2 cup of maida, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, and 1/8 tsp salt.
- Fold the batter. Once it starts difficult to mix, start adding 1/4 cup of hot water gradually and mix the batter to a smooth batter.
- Cake batter is ready.
- Pour the cake batter to a 8 inch loaf pan lined with butter paper.
- Level it and add some chopped dates on the top of the batter.
- Baking
- Preheat the kadai in low flame for 10 minutes.
- Now place the cake pan in the kadai over a wire stand. Bake it for 45 to 50 minutes or untill a toothpick inserted comes out clean. OR (Bake in a preheated oven of 180D C or 350F for about 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.)
- Allow the cake to cool completely before demolding.
- Once cooled, cut & serve the soft-moist dates cake.
Recipe Video
Notes
- Baking Time varies based on the cake mold. So start checking the cake is baked or not by around 40 minutes. If not bake for another 5 minutes. Bake until the tooth pic inserted in comes out clean.
